“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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But I mean, if trying to save the world is "as Japanese as it gets", then SURE, let's mock the silly bastards, I mean, they do talk funny!
Soil-covered houses date back thousands of years ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_sheltering ), those silly Japanese, always thinking of crazy things! The EPA of America must be nuts too! Look! ( http://www.epa.gov/hiri/strategies/greenroofs.html ) And those twits over at Berkley must be whacko ( http://bie.berkeley.edu/node/1350 ), pointing out that this technology "can reduce energy use for cooling compressors by 16%". Let's mock all these people, cmon everyone with me now!
Get Real. We should be lauding anyone who is positively addressing the issues of sustainable modernization and urbanization.